it switches places and sits in the underpass
with flowers in a beer glass vase
on a piece of fabric and a note
by someone who wouldn’t usually handwrite but does because
telling someone
even though they don’t have eyes
to read it
wish i had done more n
it will be different next time
is important
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‘shrine’ was published in 2016 as part of the UEA Undergraduate Creative Writing Anthology, Undertow.